SLUC Nancy Ease To Big Win

A huge crowd of 5,000 roared on SLUC Nancy to an 87-69 win that keeps them in the hunt in Group G of the EuroChallenge.

The hosts used a huge first-half performance to take complete control of the game and won it at a canter.

Although Apollon scored the opening five points of the game, that would be their only lead of the contest, Nancy coming to life with an 11-2 run capped by Shawn King's dunk, the first of two in quick succession from the big center.

That early deficit was a distant memory by the time they ended the first quarter up 25-15, and it only got worse for the visitors with back-to-back threes from Kenny Grant making it 34-15 two minutes into the second period.

When Grant split a pair of free throws to end the first half, the lead was 50-27.

Nancy could afford to ease off thereafter as Apollon made minor inroads to the lead, with an 8-0 spurt cutting it to 52-40 on Brandon Brown's free throws before threes from Bingo Merriex and Nicholas Pope carried Nancy clear once more.